Monthly Archives: August, 2012

VIDEO: Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpnFeyMGUs8] TED Talks: Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks:...

Double Your Money

Investors pay too much attention to prices. That’s not investing. It’s trading. Sitting still and collecting dividends is investing. Let’s focus on the best...

Into the Abyss: The Bernanke Fed

Late yesterday, the Federal Reserve released the minutes from their last policy-setting meeting. In the minutes, Bernanke & Co. all but guaranteed investors that...

VIDEO: Niall “Hit-the-Road” Ferguson on Obama’s Record

https://player.ooyala.com/player.js?video_pcode=oza2w6q8gX9WSkRx13bskffWIuyf&deepLinkEmbedCode=BicW1vNTpqjqjLzyOAH1WTjnY9otrutw&embedCode=BicW1vNTpqjqjLzyOAH1WTjnY9otrutw (Bloomberg) -- Niall Ferguson, a history professor at Harvard University and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, discusses his Newsweek magazine cover story about President...

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In seventh grade, my school had a program called “Survival” up in the woods of Western Massachusetts. It was for the whole grade. Not...

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DOE Names New Science Advisory Committee to Strengthen Gold Standard Science

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has named the...

The Declining Dollar?

There has been a lot of discussion in the...

There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 2)

There’s nothing wrong with making money slowly, because when...

There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 3)

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There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 5)

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U.S. Inflation Slows Slightly, Annual CPI Up 2.4%

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in...

EV Sales Decline in 2025 as Hybrids Gain Market Share

The US Energy Information Administration reports that while sales...

US Household Debt Rises to $18.8 Trillion in Q4 2025

US household debt continued to grow in the fourth...

US Nuclear Fleet Records Reduced Outages at Start of 2026

US Energy Information Administration reports that between January 1...

“Happy I Found Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report”

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